Tag: Islam
The Central Mosque of Cologne will be permitted to broadcast its call to prayer over loudspeakers on Friday afternoons, officials said on Monday. All 35 mosques in the western German city will now be able to play the ...
Forest fires of unprecedented scale have caused more damage in Turkey than in previous years. As a result, the ensuing debates were more lively and critical of the government’s handling of the crisis. Fires in ...
The next few weeks will be pivotal for Libya as the 75-member Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) continues increasingly futile deliberations on establishing a constitutional basis for elections in December — a process that is ...
Events in Tunisia have reinforced what many warned might happen with the involvement of the Muslim Brotherhood in that country’s governance. Tunisians — like the citizens of several Arab countries before them — have now ...
As the US-led military coalition’s two-decade presence in Afghanistan ends this month, a majority of the country’s territories are falling back under the control of the radical Islamist Taliban, pushing thousands of civilians and government ...
Book Club: In an ambitious attempt to revisit the West’s manufacturing of Islamic history, author Thomas Bauer sets out to prove Islam’s heterogeneity and why the West has intentionally moulded its conception of Islam as ...
It was “the right step in the right direction” for Ender Cetin. The child of Turkish immigrants was born and raised in Berlin. Now as a 45-year-old he belongs to the first class of Germany’s first Islamic ...
Turkish government officials entered into a war of words with the country’s well-known mafia leader, Sedat Peker, who released a series of videos about schemes within the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) involving some ...
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey called in China’s ambassador on Tuesday after his embassy said it had “the right to respond” to opposition leaders who criticised China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims three decades ago. The politicians, IYI ...
The drone attacks on the Mercer Street tanker on July 29-30 in international waters in the Arabian Sea are among the latest reminders of the need to beef up regional maritime security. They also underscore ...